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Johann Höchtl

OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every leve... - 1 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • As a joint project of two 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation, OpenGovernment will empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level.
  • You can support the open-source work on OpenGovernment by becoming a Booster of the non-profit Participatory Politics Foundation (a tax-exempt recurring donation of $1/day), giving a one-time charitable gift, or by forking the code on GitHub and start hacking.
Johann Höchtl

8 Open Source Microblogging Software To Create Twitter Clone Websites | VisonwidGet - 0 views

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twitter clone software

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11
     
    Twitter Clone
thinkahol *

Divine Inspiration From the Masses - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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Divine Inspiration From the Masses - Los Angeles Times

shared by thinkahol * on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 09 Aug 11
     
    Open-source programming's organizing principle has been embraced in medical research, engineering -- even religion
thinkahol *

The Diaspora Project - 0 views

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The Diaspora Project

shared by thinkahol * on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 13 Oct 11
     
    We're building the future we want to see -- a new social web that keeps you in control of your data, giving you the freedom to do what you want and have fun. We're a tiny core team of developers working our tails off, and we're also a huge community effort, with more than 150 people having contributed code to our open-source software, hundreds of others engaged in community organizing and spreading the word, and thousands of people providing feedback and financial support. We can't do this without you. Please give what you can. Thank you.
Johann Höchtl

National Rail Have Killed My UK Train Times App - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 03 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • About a year ago I wrote a simple web application to present UK train times in a simple format for mobile phone users.
  • When I wrote the app none of the official train timetable sites could do this and I don’t believe any can now.
  • To reiterate – I built this because it was convenient and would be useful to others.  Not to make a profit. …and today National Rail killed it.
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  • the page on London Datastore has now been locked.  “Access Denied”.  Possibly because a lot of discussion appeared on there which was critical of ATOC’s decision to extract money from users of the service
  •  If you’re a user of the application and disagree with National Rail’s greed in trying to make money out of a data source which was hitherto free, I can only suggest you email nrelicensing@atoc.org and express your concerns.
  • Johann Höchtl on 03 Nov 10
     
    Open Data API von National Railway UK wurde geschlossen - die Daten können potentiell zu viel Geld bringen
Johann Höchtl

Wiki:Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 08 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks 
  • Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation
  • Potential loss of privacy Invalid data
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  • 1) what data should the government share and 2) how does data influence the public sphere
  • The optimists decry the modern instantiations of bureaucracy and policy in which democratic governments operate as the source of democratic ills and support the normative idea of an informed and engaged public.  Pessimists counter that the normative model of democracy most accepted in the literature is a novel construction that is not grounded in the natural behavior of citizens.
  • The innocence of Americans is either explained as a rational choice under the principle of rational ignorance (Downs, 1957) or explained as something inherent in the lack of mental sophistication in humans.
  • Government 2.0 attempts to correct the problems of information diffusion by assuming that people are simply unable or unwilling to find information in the offline world.  If the barriers to information acquisition are lowered then, the theory goes, people will be more likely to find, synthesize and use information in decision-making processes.
  • Feedback loops: Who will be active in these loops? How will the public respond? 
  • People usually think about explicit citizen participation, but some of the most pwrful Web 2.0 tools aren't about that: it's about ppl who are participating w/o knowing they are participating. Google is actually one of the great engines of harnessing participation, anyone who clicks on a link is participating, a link is a vote, meaning hidden in something they're doing already. Wikipedia isn't the only place where people are contributing.
  • The amount of data being shared/collected about people is growing exponentially, old notions of privacy need to be replaed by ideas of visibility and control: give more control over who gets to see it. We are better off with more visibility and control than stopping people from collecting data. The data is incredibly useful, applicaitons depend on data, people willingly giving up that privacy about where they are all the time.
  • many programs go wrong, generically, (what worries me) government is still very much an insider's game, we have not yet really built a system that allows real participation
  • Another gov 2.0 observation: it's very hard for a government agency to start over, it's not like private sector, where companies with bad ideas go out of business. Government agencies don't go out of business. (consumers benefit from newspapers going out of business) We don't have creative destruction in gov't, the basic machinery of it just gets bigger and more entrenched. Need to figure out how to start over: what not to do
  • The toughest part about Web 2.0, Gov 2.0, etc, might be the role of management. It used to be about defining the outcome and monitoring the progress towards that outcome. In Web 2.0 you don't know what that outcome is, it's a huge leap of faith, and takes a tremendous amount of adjusting to that approach. Do we need a different set of metrics? Yes. Media is intersecting with technology, technology is a new channel for media, even Hollywood is changing: oh my goodness, we have to create entirely new financial models!
  • "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed." It's a cultural issue here, people are stuck in the past and we need a new wave of innovators or we should just expect slow results.
Judith Schossboeck

ÖNB bringt 400.000 Bücher online - 0 views

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shared by Judith Schossboeck on 17 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Judith Schossboeck on 17 Jun 10
     
    In sechs Jahren soll das Projekt abge­schlos­sen sein, 2016 wird der gesamte "Open Source" Bestand der Bibliothek der Öffent­lich­keit online zur Verfügung ste­hen, im Volltext und samt Suchfunktion.
Johann Höchtl

Google search index splits with MapReduce * The Register - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpinned the company's previous indexing system. As the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook, and Microsoft work to duplicate MapReduce through the open source Hadoop project, Google is moving on.
Johann Höchtl

Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers - Google Open Source Blog - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases.
  • you can read how the Chicago Tribune, ProPublica and data.gov.uk have used it
  • Johann Höchtl on 11 Nov 10
     
    Refine 2.0, a tool for data wranglers
Johann Höchtl

The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges, contests, competitions... - 0 views

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crowd sourcing government gov2.0 innovation contest

shared by Johann Höchtl on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Johann Höchtl on 12 May 11
     
    "think the biggest problem is how to decide which problems to work on. That can't be solved as long as only one party has exclusive control over which problems are presented." (reddit)
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